• Address feed shortage

• Improve animal health (input supply and production)

• Community breeding programs through controlled mating and fertility management

• Improve horizontal and vertical linkages

• Needs-based capacity building for producers and extension agents (efficient utilization of feed resources, sheep disease prevention and control, sheep fattening)

• Address low quality of sheep

Research and development ‘best bets’

Challenges in the value chain

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Small ruminant value chain development in Atsbi, Ethiopia Our vision: “By 2020, sustainable market oriented sheep production system that contributes to

nutrition and income of value chain actors”

• Incidence of infectious diseases (pasteurellosis, coenurosis, sheep pox, mastitis and unidentified) and parasites (liver fluke, tryps, lung worm, ticks , mites, lice, fleas)

• Shortage of effective drug and vaccine supply and poor delivery of public veterinary services to producers

• Feed shortage (quantity and quality) • No selection or breeding strategies • Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers • Shortage of quality sheep to the market; low dressing percentage • Lack of awareness and skills of producers on improved production

Aberge landscape photo(s)

Partners: MoA, TARI, Woreda cooperatives office, Woreda

administration, ICARDA, ILRI, TAMPA, EMDTI, LIVES, Abergelle export abattoir

Altitude 2400-3000

Habitat Highland

Distance from Addis 851

Production system Mixed crop-livestock

Human population 112,639

% of female headed household 8

Major products Meat

Atsbi sheep value chain